Cherry Cottage

Cherry Cottage is a house, now divided into three dwellings, dating back to the 16th century. It has undergone alterations in the 17th century and was refronted in the 18th century, with further alterations in later periods. The building is timber-framed and has a roughcast exterior with a plain tile roof. It is two storeys high with four first-floor windows. The windows are 12-pane sashes, those on the ground floor having glazing bars, all set within flush wood architraves.

Nos. 96 and 98 have paired doorways with 20th-century doors, moulded wooden architraves, and dentilled cornices, each flanked by windows on both floors. No. 100 has a four-panel door with a similar architrave and two windows on each floor to the left. A parapet with flat coping tops the building. A brick stack is located at the left end.

The right return reveals a large-timber frame with a mid-rail, wall posts, and straight braces. A wing extends to the right. The left return is partially hidden by lean-tos that are not considered historically significant, but retains a tile-hung gable. The rear of the property features late 19th-century brick wings for Nos. 98 and 100, with added lean-tos, a four-pane sash window on the first floor of each, and half-hipped roofs. No. 96 has an earlier brick wing to cover part of the structure, tile-hung above with 20th-century small-paned casement windows and a hipped roof; an additional single-storey wing is not of special interest.

Inside No. 98, the left-hand wall is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill and a straight tension brace. A second cross-wall is approximately one metre to the right of this wall and may indicate the former location of a smoke bay. The ground floor contains an inserted chamfered cross-beam with stepped cyma stops. The right-hand wall has a tie-beam rising at the centre, with queen struts. No. 96 is believed to be an early 17th-century addition and features a small-panelled timber-framed rear wall. The left wall (likely the original end wall of the earlier range) has larger-panelled timber framing. The right-hand wall on the first floor has a central post straight-braced to the mid-rail. The first floor is supported by large-scantling joists that rest on the left-hand mid-rail, rather than being morticed, indicating a later date. In the left wall, at the front, is the chamfered head of a former opening. The interior of No. 100 has not been inspected.